Principal Security Field Engineer
- Salary
- $270,300 - $371,700
- Level
- Principal
- Work type
- Remote · US only
Not stated in the posting: visa.
Open. First seen 3 October 2026.
About the role
RDQ327R177
While candidates in the listed location(s) are encouraged for this role, candidates in other US locations will be considered.
The Security Field Engineering team helps data teams solve the world's toughest problems by empowering customers to understand the security of the Databricks platform and by helping account teams address questions that come up during security reviews. Reporting to the Head of Security Field Engineering, you will meet with customers to answer questions, train other Databricks team members, build customer-facing content such as slide decks, white papers, and maybe write code that customers can use. Our team prioritizes scale -- we'd rather spend an hour building a doc than be in ten hours of meetings, rather deliver agent skills and knowledge base articles than be the rock star answering all the questions.
If you want high growth, autonomy, and to touch all elements of security, look no further.
The impact you will have:
- You will be viewed as a security expert as you work with field teams and customers to understand architectures, address concerns and handle compliance questions
- Your contributions may come in multiple ways, including customer interactions, scalable slides or white paper creation, internal enablement, process improvement, automation, or technical leadership—no one excels in every area, but all are valuable
- When you’re on the call, you will be directly appreciated. When you’re not, your impact will be felt across the company through the enablement, collateral, knowledge management, and systems you build
- You might not come from an assurance team, but you’ll come up to speed with common security and compliance regimes to save customers hours of effort and months of uncertainty
- You will identify customer pain points and work with product management and product marketing will improve our product and our messaging
- You will contribute to internal-facing services and automation that make life easier for our field staff and our customers.
- You are probably already great at AI productivity, but you’ll sit in a group focused on becoming legendary.
What we look for:
- 7+ years of technical pre-sales or post-sales experience where you're the person in the room explaining the hard concepts
- Equal love of understanding complex security principles and architectures, and of communicating them simply
- Real-world experience in multiple security domains such as IaaS+PaaS+SaaS, network and endpoint security, web applications, vulnerability management, identity management, and SIEM, though not all are needed
- You've done some scripting or programming, and are excited to use AI relentlessly to scale our impact across many thousands of customers and employees.
- Understanding of the Databricks platform is a strong plus.
Pay Range Transparency
Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected base salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location.
Based on the factors above, Databricks anticipated utilizing the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above. For more information regarding which range your location is in visit our page here.
Zone 1 Pay Range
$270,300—$371,700 USD
Zone 2 Pay Range
$243,300—$334,500 USD
Zone 3 Pay Range
$229,800—$315,900 USD
Zone 4 Pay Range
$216,200—$297,350 USD
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About Databricks
Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and 70% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified platform that includes Genie, Lakebase, Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, and Unity Catalog. To learn more, follow Databricks on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, and Instagram.
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The team: Security HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 10 open in Security. 5 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in April: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Databricks (10 of 10), Unity (10 of 10), Python (5 of 10), AWS (4 of 10), Azure (4 of 10), LLM (4 of 10), GCP (3 of 10)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Sr. Staff Security Software Engineer - Agentic Security Engineering posted Oct 13
- Sr. Security Engineer, Enterprise Security posted Oct 12
- Staff Security Engineer, Incident Response posted Oct 8
- Staff Security Engineer, Incident Response posted Sep 24
- Sr. Manager, Security — Continuous Monitoring v 2.0 posted Sep 21
- Staff Technical Program Manager - Cleared/Security posted Aug 7
- Staff Enterprise Security Engineer posted Apr 1
- Staff Security Assurance Engineer posted Feb 24
- Staff Security Software Engineer - Agentic Security Engineering posted Apr 4
From the team and dates on Databricks's own job board.
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